Martine Letts, AsiaLink CEO, invites you to the launch of:
Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide
David Walker and Li Yao with Karen Walker
Melbourne University Press, 2022
Date: Friday 8 July 2022
Time: 4.30-6.30pm AEST
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, University of Melbourne
Registration/RSVP by Monday 4 July: news@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Please note places are limited and this event will not be live-streamed.
Please join us on 8 July, 2022 from 4:30PM as we launch ‘Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide’, the new account of two parallel lives from esteemed Australian and Chinese scholars Prof. David Walker AM and Prof. Li Yao. According to the Chinese zodiac both writers are “Roosters” – one born in Inner Mongolia and one in South Australia. Their stories illuminate contrasting national and family histories revealing the power of cross-cultural friendship.
In a discussion moderated by Asialink Senior Adviser and UNSW Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards, David will sit down to discuss his new book and why cross-cultural friendship is now more powerful than ever before.
About the author:
Professor David Walker AM
Honorary Professorial Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne; Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University; inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies, Peking University.
We will also be joined by an esteemed panel of guests:
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA FAIIA
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs; Former Chancellor, the Australian National University.
Dr Tseen Khoo, La Trobe University
Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO, Monash University
